Metal Gear Survive Is One Of The Games Of All Time

[drcroc]

I feel like talking about this game, and maybe we can start some discussion on it.

I'll just say to begin with I actually like Metal Gear Survive, and as of right now have 110 hours in it.  That doesn't mean I think it's a good game though really, it's just fun for me in the way that I can ignore all the glaring issues and focus on just shooting stuff and placing turrets.  But I'm a bit a particular kind of gamer I guess because if I can shoot stuff in the process of unlocking cosmetics, I'll probably enjoy it at least a little bit, because for me cosmetics and customization options are always the ultimate goal of any game.  Sure I play other games without character customization but it's always for some particular thing I like about the game that's hard for me to really put my finger on.

At least as far as Survive goes, I have really enjoyed unlocking stuff, hunting animals, building defenses around my base, and also seeing Sahelanthropus return was slightly cool, although it was in a destroyed state.  The story was pretty boring, but I was at least surprised by the plot twist.  Multiplayer missions are pretty fun, and extreme difficulty is a certain kind of difficult that for me is slightly stressful but pretty fun.  Overall have had fun playing it but have slowed down on it recently because all I'm working on at this point is unlocking cosmetic equipment color options, as well as doing stuff to unlock event items which can sometimes be cool.

Here's the first character I made:



Second Character with the discount zombie face paint the game gives you to start with, as well as the ocelot beret from the last event: 




An aerial view of my base on my first character:



The single best cosmetic I ever unlocked on this game so far:



Closer view of the defenses around my base, which is one inner layer of sandbags and two layers of fences which are then surrounded by turrets.  Not actually as defensible and strong against enemies as it might seem:



Finally, this is what my main character normally looks like, just happened to have the sneaking suit on when taking that first screenshot:



Like I said, I have had quite a bit of fun with this game and have actually beaten it twice now.  I just wanted there to be some actual thread for this game on this forum even if it's mostly a game that just gets shit on.  Which depending on your perspective could be deserved.  I think it's a bit of a shameless cash grab by konami because they wanted to use that Fox engine some more and change up the ip a little bit hoping to make a new franchise of survival games.  But the survival in this game is only an annoyance, thus the game as it was intended by the developers isn;t actually fun in my opinion.  I got creative to be able to enjoy this game, as I would suggest anyone else do.  Still though it's possible you won't have any fun, even though I did and still do with this game.  I'm still actively playing mutliplayer for events and stuff which rotate,